Messaoud, Yassir and the wounded Martinez reach an Alsatian village. Over the next few days the soldiers ingratiate themselves into the area and Saïd befriends a milkmaid. When a unit of Germans arrives into the village, a battle breaks out. Messaoud is badly hurt by a Panzerschreck rocket and then shot by a German rifleman. Saïd attempts to evacuate Martinez, but they are both shot by the Panzerschreck, killing Saïd and further wounding Martinez, who is quickly finished off. Abdelkader and Yassir attempt to flee, but Yassir is shot in the back by a German. However, just as the corporal is cornered, more colonial troops arrive and drive the Germans out of the village. As columns of Free French forces begin to move through the area, Abdelkader sees the colonel passing in his jeep, but the French commanding officer ignores him and he is pulled away by a staff officer who asks him where his unit is. When Abdelkader says they are all dead, he is simply assigned to another French NCO. As he walks out of the village, he passes a film cameraman filming only French troops standing by the liberated villagers. The villagers, however, applaud Abdelkader as he leaves. The movie then moves to the present day. An elderly Abdelkader goes to a war cemetery in Alsace to visit the graves of his comrades: Martinez, Larbi, Saïd, Yassir and Messaoud. He then returns to his small rundown flat in modern-day France. The film concludes with the caption that from 1959 pensions for servicemen from France's overseas possessions living in France enjoyed no increases after the date their country of origin became independent. Cast Jamel Debbouze - Saïd Otmari Samy Naceri - Yassir Roschdy Zem - Messaoud Souni Sami Bouajila - Abdelkader Bernard Blancan - Sergeant Roger Martinez Mathieu Simonet - Caporal Leroux Assaad Bouab - Larbi Mélanie Laurent - Margueritte village Vosges Benoît Giros - Captain Durieux Thibault de Montalembert - Captain Martin Aurélie Eltvedt - Irène Dioucounda Koma - Touré Philippe Beglia - Rambert Antoine Chappey - The colonel Kalen Bushe - Second colonel Thomas Langmann - The journalist Julie de Bona Modern relevance While each has his own motives, these native Africans have enlisted to fight for a France they have never seen. In the words of Le Chant des Africains the four actors sing within the film, "we come from the colonies to save the